the dissident frogman

19 years and 8 months ago

Alice vs the Billion Dollars Lefties ♠ Alice contre les Gauchistes Milliardaires

the dissident frogman

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Sorry for the hiatus, please know however that I'm not dead.

Just insanely busy, trying to earn a living, and incidentally to get a license to a shooting range nearby.

Yeah, I've been in the mood for shooting things these days, and the neighbors were starting to complain.

In other news, I don't know if you're like me, but as I grow older, I find one thing - among others - to be particularly satisfying: when it turns out that your teen-age idols still have something worth to tell you, many years after you've more or less forgotten them.

Gals and lads, I give you Alice Cooper:
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."

What's outstanding in this single paragraph, is that the man is still exposing the free thinking and independent attitude that appealed to me in the first place (some, *gosh* 20 years ago) while at the same time demonstrating why it's so rare and unlikely that any of your teenage idols will still be worthy of your consideration, once you're past your twenties.

Because most of them are morons.

Granted of course, that unlike your average lefty you're not stuck in your own past, pleasing yourself in a moronic immaturity.

And that's precisely the case were Alice is right, again: you'd be bigger morons than them.

After all, they're making millions with your stupidity.

It shouldn't forbid us temporary access of nostalgia though. So I guess it's time to dig out my old vinyls (putting aside the creepy thought that there are kids out there who probably don't know what's an LP) and roll the diamond on...

...Why, "Elected" of course:

"And if I am elected
I promise the formation of a new party
A third party, the Wild Party!
I know we have problems,
We got problems right here in Central City,
We have problems on the North, South, East and West, New York City, Saint Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago,
Everybody has problems,
And personally, I don't care."

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Désolé pour le hiatus, sachez cependant que je ne suis pas mort.

Juste effroyablement occupé, à tenter de gagner ma vie et accessoirement d'obtenir un licence pour un pas de tir des environs.

Ouais, j'ai été d'humeur à tirer sur des trucs ces derniers temps, et les voisins commençaient à se plaindre.

Autrement, je ne sais pas si vous êtes comme moi, mais l'âge venant, il est une chose - parmi d'autres - que je trouve particulièrement satisfaisante : lorsqu'il arrive que vos idoles de jeunesse ont encore quelque chose de valable à vous dire, de nombreuses années après que vous les ayez plus ou moins oubliées.

Gars et gâtes, je vous propose Alice Cooper :

"Si vous écoutez une rock star afin de savoir pour qui vous devez voter, vous êtes encore plus cons qu'ils ne le sont. Pourquoi sommes nous des rock stars ? Parce que nous sommes des cons. On dors toute la journée, on joue de la musique la nuit, et on s'assoie très rarement pour lire le Washington Journal."

Ce qui est magnifique dans ce seul paragraphe, c'est que l'homme a toujours l'attitude d'indépendant et de libre penseur qui m'avait attiré en premier lieu (il y a quelques *bigre* 20 ans de cela) tout en démontrant dans le même temps pourquoi il est si rare et peu probable qu'aucune de vos idoles de jeunesse ne vaillent toujours la peine, passé vos vingt ans.

Parce que la plupart sont des cons.

Evidemment, cela implique aussi que contrairement au gauchiste moyen, vous ne soyez pas embourbé dans votre propre passé, à vous complaire dans une immaturité de demeuré.

Car c'est précisément le cas de figure où Alice à raison une fois de plus: vous seriez bien plus cons qu'eux ne le sont.

Après tout, ils font des millions avec votre connerie.

Cela ne doit cependant pas nous interdire des accès temporaires de nostalgie. J'imagine donc qu'il est temps de fouiller dans mes vieux vinyls (en écartant l'angoissante pensée qu'il y a des gamins qui ignorent probablement ce qu'est un LP) et faire glisser le diamant sur...

... Et bien "Elected" évidemment:

"And if I am elected
I promise the formation of a new party
A third party, the Wild Party!
I know we have problems,
We got problems right here in Central City,
We have problems on the North, South, East and West, New York City, Saint Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago,
Everybody has problems,
And personally, I don't care."

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I own, built and run this place. In a previous life I was not French but sadly, I died.

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1602 - Valerie, Texas

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I was shocked to read they even have rifle ranges left in France, much less have to have permits. Maybe the place isn't as far gone as we feared. Naman, welcome! Hope we have been treating you right. Texas is honored to have you on her soil. Always room here for folk who believe in working hard, standing on their own feet, and protecting what is theirs. Being Texan is a state of mind. Plenty of room frogman, plenty of room.